A Long Time Ago...

Okay gang, until such time as I feel inspired to churn out any more work on Alpha Polis, and until such time as the lot of us work something out about Ba's campaign, I feel we need to do something else to promote role playing.

Specificly, we need to do a star wars role playing game. I've got a nice little adventure set to mind, and would be happy to run it for a small to medium sized group.

Now, right now I'm pretty sure this is gonna have to be done over instant messages. I'm invisioning two to three hour sessions on saturdays, begining somewhere around 1 or 2 pm GMT. this is open to negotiation, but that's a time slot that grace and i are both available for. if it's utterly unacceptible to all you would-be jedi out there, we'll work something out.

A jedi character is considered a padawan until he hits level 7, or maybe 8. i forget which.

the basic classes are Jedi Guardian (combat focused jedi), Jedi Consular (force focused jedi), Soldier (combat specialist), Scoundrel (rogue character), Tech Specialist (depending on how you build the character, this one can be anything from a medic to an engineer), Force Adept (non jedi force user), and Nobel (a good 'interaction' based class). i think that's all of em in d20.

you can be droids. you can be bounty hunters (i think there's a bounty hunter prestige class, actually), you can be a member of a family of crime lords, etc.

the adventure i've got in mind is set in the old republic era, so 'extended universe', but not 100% accurate to cannon.

At present, roman's looking at playing some sort of droid, likely a fairly normal labor saving device that went rogue some how.

Doorsh will be our resident jedi padawan.

Ben, since he's open minded about getting a character assigned to him, can be a space faring captain hoping to strike it rich in the galaxy, but so far all he's managed to secure is his own little ship.

i'll suggest, for ease of narrative, that ben and roman's characters already work together. doorsh's character, or his jedi master, hire the completed party to work together on a mission to be announced closer to play.

grace, or a local friend of ours if he gets his act together and joins in, will be playing the other preassigned role, to be divulged later.

i'll suggest, for ease of narrative, that ben and roman's characters already work together. doorsh's character, or his jedi master, hire the completed party to work together on a mission to be announced closer to play.

Yes, I was going to mention something about this at MSN, as droids generally needing an owner (or at least the appearance of an owner). I hope to have a character background ready sometime this week, or maybe the next. This one is becoming rather too busy...

I'll talk it over with Ben once I finish writing my character background up to meeting him, at which point we'll work something out.

Roman has made the suggestion that we attempt to play every sunday or even on saturdays (when he is unavailable), if there is only one person missing, lest the game starts to lose momentum and grinds to a halt like the previous game.

the problem with playing every sunday is that guarantees grace misses half the sessions. i'm not really happy with that sort of idea. if it wasn't guaranteed to affect the same person every week, then it might be different.

for the same reason, i'm not really keen on moving things to saturday, as that drops roman in it.

Perhaps we could alternate on the weeks Grace can't make it? On time on Sunday, another on Saturday etc? It's not exactly fitting with our organization skills (or lack thereof ) but we could give it a go. This way two people miss out, yes, but not as nearly as often. One week out of four.

Err... can't remember if I've said this already or not (sorry if I haven't), but I won't be available this sunday because of Scotland. If everybody else is there, I give you my oh so holy blessing to play without me.